About two years ago a group I was in helped create a premade development environment as a virtual computer/appliance .ova file to load into VirtualBox. I use this in a class I teach for my students so they don’t have to try to setup their computer for OpenMRS development (which for many can be a stopping point toward any further contributions).
That version is about 2 years old now, and I’m thinking about creating a new one. My first question (well, ok the first question should be is this desirable for the community, but I kinda hope it is) is should I create it as a 32-bit VM or a 64-bit? I guess I’m wondering if there are enough interested developers still using a 32-bit computer to not do this as a 64-bit VM.
@wyclif
Yes, I will be configuring Eclipse as the IDE following the instructions in the wiki (which seams to be down at the moment)
@dkayiwa
I am aware of the SDK, but I’ve never installed it myself. I do plan on doing that for this project as well. I had a student install that last semester, and I have his notes on that, which I hope will help make sure I get everything right.
I’m keeping notes of what I’m doing to create this, and what a user of the .ova file will need to do once they get started using it.
It looks like the rest of the page is usage information and other things that would very much be different for each developer. Would you suggest I do anything else on that page for the system I’m creating?
I must confess I know very little about modules (I need to learn that, I know, maybe over winter break!), so I’m not as sure how to proceed with this part. (Setting up the environment for openmrs-core isn’t a problem.)
